John Ray Quotes

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

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• My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Delicate

• There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • More
  • Recovery
  • Rate

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Working
  • Research

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Art
  • Know
  • Respect

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Positive
  • Farming

• Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great

• Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Children
  • True
  • Stress

• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Literature

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Live

• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wise

• I don't want to start singing about things like sex, drugs and swearing. I'm into love, and maybe I'll get more into making love when I'm older. But I want to be someone who is respected by everybody.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Singing
  • Sex

• I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Cool
  • Worry

• I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'

  

  John Grant
  • Children
  • Parents

• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Grew Up
  • Compare
  • Beatles

• Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t sustainable in the face of mass unemployment, but as memories of the Depression faded, economists fell back in love with the old, idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Vision
  • Capitalism
  • Economists

• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Age

• What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

• Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

  

  John Ray